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· 10/24/1990

Arlene Flax, Etc. v. W.S. Potts, Fort Worth Independent School District, a Corporation

Citations

  • 915 F.2d 155
  • 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 18531
  • 1990 WL 149215

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that fourteen schools that were over 80% black did not preclude declaration of unitary status in large urban district with 98 total schools, where it was “essentially un-controverted” that the district had succeeded in “removing the vestiges of the dual system”
  • “A district court in this circuit does not dismiss a school desegregation case until at least three years after it has declared the system unitary.”
  • “[t]o continue supervision once [constitutional] wrong is righted.. .effectively changes the constitutional measure of the wrong itself; it transposes the dictates of the remedy for the dictates of the Constitution.”

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Judges: Reavley, Duhé, Wiener

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